JG: "Impossible" Penrose triangle, rendered in 3-D. The basis for some of Escher's work, here, here and here.
JG: Obligatory...but too obscure?
First Peanuts comic Peanuts Begins
JG: It would appear I haven't wasted those 30 years.
- I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
- I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. We do not find signposts at crossroads, but our own scouts erect them, to help the rest.
JG: Note to current leaders in their race to the bottom:
Too Little, Too Late
By the time COP-21’s attendees convened in Paris, it was probably already too late to keep global climate change from spinning completely out of control. The embarrassingly feeble agreement that came out of that event, though, has guaranteed that nothing significant will be done. The hard political and economic realities that made any actual cut in greenhouse gas emissions all but unthinkable are just layers of icing on the cake, part of the predicament of our time—a predicament that defines the words “too little, too late” as our basic approach to the future looming up ahead of us.
The kids? Oh, they were glued to 'em.
The Christmas Spirit Of Staring Into Screens Together
“Nothing puts me in the Christmas spirit more than sitting down on the couch with my parents and siblings, turning on the TV, and then proceeding to either look at the screen or gaze down into my glowing tablet display for hours on end,”
JG: Life, it seems, is not without its touch of irony:
Man dies after walking off a cliff in San Diego while distracted by electronic device
A man who was paying too much attention to his electronic device accidentally walked off the edge of a cliff in San Diego and fell 60 feet to his death, according to lifeguards.Did you know: It's Going to be okay.
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